Wheezer and the Painted Frog
Wheezer and the Painted Frog
Kitty Sutton (author)
Product Description
From the time Europeans landed in North America, the People were forced out of the land they had known for generations. By the nineteenth century, the United States had pushed them into the remote and undeveloped area known as Indian Territory and promised them food and protection that never came. Plagued by the loss of their ability to farm and hunt, the lack of food and shelter, the disease brought by the White Man, every tribe suffered losses so great only the memories of the survivors could document the dead. This story, taking place among the Cherokee after the Trail of Tears, is a story for all the People.
Wheezer And The Painted Frog is a Native American historical fiction mystery set in Indian Territory, now Oklahoma. It begins in the spring of 1839, immediately after the last group of Cherokees, removed from their homeland in the east, were unceremoniously left to fend for themselves after an over 1,000 mile march called the Trail of Tears, where over 4,000 Cherokee died. Sasa (Swan) a thirteen-year-old Cherokee girl finds herself alone after both her mother and father die after their arrival in Indian Territory. All that is left is her five year old brother, Usti Yansa who seems healthy, until for no apparent reason he sickens and dies. She finds and saves a lost dog who she names Wheezer. He is an extremely smart dog, and he soon smells a human rat, but struggles to find a way to communicate that what he senses is dangerous. His original owner, Jackson Halley, looks desperately for him, and when he finds Sasa and Wheezer together, they all become fast friends and soon set about solving the mystery of the reason why her five-year-old brother Usti Yansa (Little Buffalo) died.
Healthy little boys shouldn't grow weak and die when they have shelter, food and the care of their families, yet Sasa's little brother, the last of her family, sickens, mumbling the mysterious "I didn't do it right, I didn't do it enough. Why didn't it work?" Left alone, mourning and trying to survive in a new place with new ways, Sasa seeks answers with the help of her new friends, Wheezer and Jackson. The Jack Russell Terrier seems too wise, too fierce and too loyal to be just a dog. Did the Creator send Wheezer to Sasa and if so, how can a dog, albeit a smart one, help to solve a murder? Together, they discover a vast network of systematic plundering of the government funds earmarked for the Cherokee called the Allotment. Can they discover who is at the root of it all?
Product Details
Ebook
File Size: 257 KB
Publisher: Inknbeans Press (September 13, 2011)
Language: English
ASIN: B005N0PTT4
Available at Amazon.com, Barnes&Noble and Smashwords.
Paperback
212 pages
Publisher: CreateSpace (September 12, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1466335335
ISBN-13: 978-1466335332
Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.1 x 0.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 13.9 ounces
Available at Amazon.com and Barnes&Noble.
Review
"Wheezer and the Painted Frog is at once joyous and heartbreaking. You will ache for the suffering, be outraged by the wrongs, fascinated by the way of life, identify with Sasa and above all you will love Wheezer. You will look for his spirit in every dog you meet! Good luck and all best wishes Anne"
Anne Perry, Author of Acceptable Loss
